Figured I would document my progress on the helmet while waiting for the latest bondo work to dry! Picture dump, ahoy!
The helmet, as I recieved it in all of it's wonderful glory! I knew going in that I would have to remove all the bits and doodads for the helmet to be approvable!

After nearly dying as I soon realized when doing massive amounts of sanding, i should wear a respirator and eye protection. The stuff... got... EVERYWHERE! I almost wish i'd taken a picture of it, but alas. I reinforced the inside of the helmet with Bondo glass where needed.

I then decided i didn't like how uneven the rebreathers were, so I proceeded to fill them in with Bondo and improvised a way to make them all nice and smooth as opposed to the ribbed hose style.

After getting some beautiful earcaps to fill the empty space (You have gotta have earcaps, man!!) on both sides of the helmet, I decided to keep the short antenna and instead cut into and simply glued it onto the helmet. (apologies for blurry picture...

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After much deliberation on the next tasks ahead of me, I decided that I didn't like the earlier ends to the rebreathers either and wanted to do something unique. I eventually cut those off entirely, before drilling a Hole and inserting and glueing in these lovely pieces I found at a local hardware store. (kinda hard to see...), designed to go from the inside kitchen faucet to a garden hose (No idea -why-). I then proceeded to fill the cracks of the earcaps, only to later learn.. bondo is a lot worse than using.. say.. spot putty. so much more work for such a tiny crack! I instantly regretted taht decision but I carried on anyway. As to the visor, I knew I wanted to fill it in to bring the visor in a tad. after attempting to just fill a small portion of the visor in where I needed, only to have it end in a spectacular failure, I decided a new approach. I filled the previous gap (which was only for reference and fitting) and filled the inside of the visor with bondo glass!

Eventually cutting out the visor to rough spec, and finishing where I desired the bottom portion so that I could finish the Rebreathers... I've begun the beautification process of the helmet and started finishing the rebreathers, and filling in visor better.
